royal duke
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Eric Pierre, a pastor who teaches fifth-grade English in the Bronx, has taken up an additional title this summer: royal duke.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
Suspects ranged from low-life madmen to a royal duke.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2016
What could be done when the great Oxford professor--the most learned Scholastic of the kingdom--was protected by a royal duke clothed with viceregal power, and the Earl Marshal armed with the sword of State?
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 05 The Middle Ages by John Lord
On jewels he spent nothing, having already, he said, "a sufficient store for the wife of a royal duke."
From At Agincourt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
He reminded me at once of a royal duke, of an actor turned a little elderly, and of a blatant bagman who should have been the illegitimate son of a gentleman.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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